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W. S. KENNEDY.

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W. S. KENNEDY SADDLE.

No. 9,029. Patented June 15, 1852.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. KENNEDY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,029, dated June 15, 1852.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. KEN- -NEDY, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Construction of Riding-Saddles; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof.

It has always been considered very desirable to procure a perfect springseat saddle and various modes have been employed for accomplishing thisobject. Sometimes the frame of the saddle has been constructed with aspring so as to allow the frame to spread; and sometimes the seats havebeen formed of various materials for the purpose of giving a spring. Butwhere there is a metallic spring in the frame of the saddle, the motionof the frame by its expansion and contraction occasions a friction orabrasion against the horses back; and where the elasticity is attemptedto be derived from webbing or other material of which the seat iscomposed, it is found that the strain occasioned by a short use, as wellas the effects arising from the saddle becoming wet, soon deprive thewoolen, cotton, or other similar material of its elasticity.

The nature of my improvement consists in employing for the seat of thesaddle, ratan, cane or whalebone or other material substantially similarin its properties and operation, woven in the usual manner of what istermed diagonal or chain weaving. Cane or ratan woven in this manner hasbeen long known and used for forming the seats of chairs, and the mannerof attaching the woven cane or ratan to the frame of the chair is alsowell known.

In my improved saddle the cane, ratan, whalebone or other like materialmay be woven in any of the several modes known and practised. I weavelong strands from the head to the crupper of the saddle and the otherstrands diagonally across the former, and I believe this to be the bestmode. The cane, ratan, or whalebone'should be attached to the tree ofthe saddle in the same manner as the cane seating of chairs is woveninto and attached to the frame of the chair. By this means a permanentelasticity is acquired, and the usual webbing, crossstraining andseat-cloth are dispensed with and the weight of the saddle therebyreduced.

This improvement when applied to ladies saddles, produces a desirablecross-spring, and in all saddles produces superior elasticity and springof the seat and therefore comfort to the rider. The seat is completewithout any other covering, and being made of a material that will notabsorb water, is always dry; and the open work renders the seat cool forthe rider and the horse. It is peculiarly adapted to Spanish and Mexicansaddles, and to the dragoon and artillery service.

In the accompanying drawings a represents the head of the saddle tree;Z) the cantle and c the woven cane seating.

Having thus described my invention what I claim therein as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The employment of woven ratan, cane, whalebone, or other similar elasticsubstance in the construction of seats of riding saddles, said seat soconstructed being attached to and combined with the saddle tree in themanner and for the purposes above set forth.

WM. S. KENNEDY. Witnesses:

SAMPsoN WALLIs, MICHAEL MAGEE.

